Jackson lead as he lived, sometimes with his heart, sometimes with his mind, sometimes with both.
Always take all the time to reflect that circumstances permit, but when the time for action has come, stop thinking. (Andrew Jackson)
No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty.
Politics was at once clinical and human, driven by principles and passions that he (the leader) had to master and harness for the good of the whole.
Jefferson was ambivalent about executive power – until he bore executive responsibility.
Jefferson was the rare leader who stood out from the crowd without intimidating it.
The political nature of man made it highly unlikely that a society designed to meet regularly would remain peaceable. “The way to make friends quarrel is to pit them in disputation under the public eye,” Jefferson said.
Steadiness of faith, was, in the long run, as illuminating and essential as sophistication of thought.
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.
The traditional religious right’s failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school.
Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.
A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.